Word: pauletta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Giovanni Pauletta was head of all microbiological research at Carlo Erba, Milan's big chemical-pharmaceutical company. Recognized as one of Italy's topflight microbiologists, he was one of the first to study penicillin mold in Italy, had written widely on antibiotics. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues also knew him as a dedicated and fearless experimenter who had used himself as a guinea pig hundreds of times. But the doctor never talked much about his experiments. "He was a very modest man," his colleagues said...
...morning last week, Dr. Pauletta walked into his office and called his assistant, 28-year-old Dr. Angelo Cresseri. He showed him a bottle of colorless liquid marked "Glutaril cas. 20%." It was a new formula, said Dr. Pauletta. He filled a large syringe with the liquid and ordered Assistant Cresseri to give him an intramuscular injection in the thigh...
...Carlo Erba knew exactly what the new formula was. Pauletta had reported only that he was working on a new antibiotic and had tried it on guinea pigs with favorable results...
...Pauletta's assistant gave him the injection and turned back to his desk. Ten minutes later he heard violent, racking coughs. Pauletta was grasping his throat as if choking. He blurted out, "Call Dr. Banderali," and lost consciousness. The doctor gave him artificial respiration, injected two doses of heart stimulant. An ambulance rushed him to a hospital where his chest was opened, his heart massaged. Nothing helped. Within an hour after the injection, Dr. Pauletta was dead...
What was glutaril cas. 20%? At week's end, the police had not yet succeeded in getting an analysis of what was left in the bottle. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues guessed that it might be an antibiotic of the chloromycetin group. They were helping police sift through the dead man's papers, to see if Dr. Pauletta had left any notes about...